* This is the result of a poll of visitors to the ChristianWebSite
during 2003-SEP. It is probable that the vast majority of participants in
the poll were Fundamentalist and other Evangelical Christians. 22

Beliefnet polls about Heaven and Hell:

Beliefnet is a multi-faith site. As such its
visitors may well be weighted in favor of religious liberals and non-Christains.

Beliefnet.com conducted a poll during 2006-MAY which asked "Have you personally known people you think will probably go
to Hell?" Results show the division in North America between those who believe that being relegate to Heaven or Hell is
dependent on one's beliefs, or behavior.

Results were:

35%: No, because I don't believe in Hell.

26%: Yes because they don't have the right
beliefs.

23%: Yes because of their immoral actions.

17%: No.

During 2007-JAN, Beliefnet.com conducted a similar poll asking: "Can good people outside your faith tradition attain
salvation as you understand it?" Five answers were provided. Results were:

58%: Yes, fully, if they are sincere in their attempts to know or worship a deity.

3%: Yes, but not fully.

1%: No, but they are not punished.

28%: No, and unfortunately, there are consequences.

9% I don't know.

The design of this poll is very heavily biased. This is surprising for a
multi-faith web site like Beliefnet. They provide no answer to cover individuals
who are sincere in their efforts to lead an ethical live, but have no belief in
a deity.

During 2007-DEC, The Barna Group asked a random sampling of 1,005
American adults what they believed about six popular Bible stories. 26 They were given two
alternatives:

That the stories were factually accurate, or

They were not actual fact but were designed to teach principles.

Results were:

75% believe that the virgin birth is accurate.

69% believe that Jesus actually changed water into wine at the wedding
feast at Cana.

68% believe that Jesus used five loaves of bread and two fish to feed
five thousand men.

64% believe in the flood of Noah and his ark. However, several groups
did not regard it as a real event: Catholics, Atheists/Agnostics,
Northeasterners, "upscale" adults (those college graduates with a family
income over $75,000), and social/political liberals.

56% believe in the devil having tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit
of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Among Atheists/Agnostics, this
was believed by 8%.

49% believe in the story of Sampson losing his physical strength when
his hair was cut.

On average born-again Christians were 40 percentage points more likely
to believe these stories than non-born again adults.

On average, those who considered themselves as political conservatives
were 26 percentage points more likely to believe the stories as literally
true.

Southerners and persons of lower earnings were more likely to treat the
stories as literally true.